Description
Camellia sinensis ‘Charles Towne’ is an excellent cultivar for making white tea which generally refers to harvesting buds or very young leaves and drying gently with no processing. This produces a delicate tea much lighter than green tea that can be very expensive to buy from specialty tea purveyors. Harvest or ‘pluck’ tea leaves during the warmer months. Select only the top three newly flushing young leaves from the branch tips. Research which method to use to dry and cure your leaves as this will determine which type of tea you get. Tea camellias becomes multi-branched and can reach 6 feet or more tall and wide in 10 years with profuse shoots to harvest from. Or keep shrubs pruned to any size you like.
